2082, Palestrina

Record number: 2082
Site: Palestrina
Position: Pediment slopes
Roof element: Raking simas
Remarks: Raking sima with red central vertical stripe on convex strigils, zigzag on upper roll, guilloche on fascia, zigzag. W interstices 1.8. Channel on top for cresting (D 3). H roll 6-12, D 6-3.3. H undercut 2.8.
Bibliography: Andrén 1940, pp. 374-375, no. I:3; Quattrocchi 1956, p. 55, no. 177, fig. 22; Ö. Wikander 1994, p. 54, no. 22
Publication record: Architectural terracottas from Etrusco-Italic Temples
Il Museo Archeologico prenestino
The Archaic Etruscan sima
Type of decoration: Convex strigils/painted zigzag/painted guilloche
Current Collection: Museo Archeologico Nazionale: 1154
Mouldmade: yes
Height: 54
Width: 54
MPD: 48
Clay: 10YR 7/3
Condition: Example with complete dimensions
Height top fascia: 2.5-3
Depth top fascia: 9.6-2
Height strigil: 24
Width strigil: 3.6
Th. tile backer: 3
Height strigil: 24
Width strigil: 3.6
Thickness tile backer: 3

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